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Coverage (spatial) South Africa, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Coverage (temporal) 1980
Source Archives of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Anti-ApartheidNews, MSS AAM 2202.
Description NATO chief meets apartheid foreign minister; AAMprogramme of action against British collaboration; solidaritywith the black workers of South Africa.
HAISI-theki Movemrientton uztween NA IU and-~" --' - -":t ,--; ,,- -- PfeynqiSY sought assuranee that "either tno prsSouth~ Afri ca'. miiayan ula Afi n onffcia daigs, of my infd should take plae ws thSouth*-tuns, in opn ly efing a lao t n ... . wit Sc c NIN AN redmfgteswr4f~~We1~ ea~pegnfounsd guilty of high treason i1-uns.l t d the 1.gn has been in touch Pt ri AA-NEWS -toonly have done so withporet the liberation itsllATgov e i4e ay as erptossed as AA at tneagreement kae Sierton Nine faeagratnet~f~ N~~O atriguet ~ ~ *seeaqsis*Possile death sentences.
ACTION.-NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONALBarnet Bailey of AAM aid chBARNET AA marked the opening Fae, MP for Wood Grof the international campaign of committee was formed solidarity with 4a ll a for action agreed. Supspeaker meeting in NfimNamiba = r with due tosell AA NEWS 3 film on Namibia and a pecial Greenshoppingcentre report on the ealth problems of 6 December and will Namibian refugees. The Group isurgent contacts with I raising fundtfor SWAPO's mother disarmament activists and child clinic in Angla.campaign against nuckContact: Liz5 Batcehurst, 449 miltary collaboration 1818. apartheidand the illegi Namibian uanium.Carnubrid~e Contact: MargaretC a m bujrdg St Loy !: R oad, ToteCAMRIG A uporter are Tel 808 2542,orgarlisig a meeting on Namibia do " Saturdaey 6 December. from 2-5~s~ pro o w iat the Wesley Hfall, King Street, NORiWICH- AA plsmbe Cambridge. There will be speakerparticipatedin local '0 from SWAPO, plus a film and Week' activities with aexhibition. and poster display,DContact: Margaret Levin, 153. of Athol Fgar's fil HuntingdonRoad, Cambr de. Norich cinema, the pexhibitions Women UnCardiff Apartheid' and a dailyCARtlFF and District AA grorup anti-apartheid literatur are hoding a major r'ally on organirsed.Safturday 6 December, for the Atea recent publicncampaign to release Nelson Mandela Namibia, a campaign , and all Southern African political to providematerial an( prisoners. The rally will take place aid to SWAPO. Offers in the Cardiff University Studentsand further details abe Union, Park Place. from 10 am to atsiis'es. please conts 2 pm, mid speaksersinclutde a Parsley. 127 Lincoln S, representative of the ANC(SA), Norwich, tl 0603 561 Mike Terry,(AAM), Lord Jack Brooks (Welsh Labour Party), Gwynfor Evans(Plaid Cymru), TREa Anti-ApeCharlieSwain(Welsh TUC), Ben Movement local group:Davies (NUM), Athur True estblished irn the last(CPGB), ReedDouglas Bale, Mooja Liverp4il, Skelmersdal Naegr INational Union of Seameni ,Somerset.All have ai and G Legall (South African to1oost the work of lMedical Aid). their aas,'and are eagContact: Jo Pickford, Cardiff from- members and su 49998 t, or the Students Union, their parts of thecoun Cardiff 396421. El tn Liverpo _ol 30 necHauiuney a launching meeting orm ontiaf ten an intemsHARINGEY AA has been inolvuiversity studrelaunched with the help of campus AA group. Th(Haringey Trades Council. At a plansto leafret the t
Christma's greetirAnti- Apartheid Movement members and supporters invited to send Christmas and New Year greetings tiprisoners and their families in South Africa and NatLists of addresses are now available from the AAM 89 Charlotte Street, London WIP 2DQ.Tel 01-580EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT- CONTACT AAM Naed by Hugh tuneploymnent demnstration inairea, by neg'eeo, a new land plans porters are in Wood sona making cal, to boost the ear andwithiIipoirtqof *Tonge, 113 ham, N17,~rs'ne Worldring' week s in alocal aa groupsThe Anti-Apartheid Movement has local groups-in the following centres:Aberdeen Dundee OxfordBanstead Edinburgh PeterboroughBarnet Enfield ReigateBasingstoke Epsom RichmondBirminghanr Exeter St Austel IBordem Glasgow SheffieldBrighton Greenwich SkelmersdaleBristol Hackney SouthamptonBurnley Haringey SouthwarkCambridge Huddr field Stoke-on-TrentCamden Islington SuttonCanterbury Lambeth TynesideCardiff Leeds Wesl LondonCoventry Leicester West LothianCroydon Manchester YorkNorwichThe Scottish Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement can be contacted c/o John Nelson JSeoreary), 3RoseaeCresceHrneitton Laflcrshire. T_, 03598 426781 (eve), 0698 28637?6 day).mpeeting so to ider further activity.Contact: Shirley Talbot, 051733 2988.E0Th 'fofrniationt meeting ofa further grodip, i omerset, saw 50 people from throughout the county andother parts of the South Westwas organised outside the French Embassy in Dublin in protest against the French rugby tour of SouthAfrica,.ILEAPRESSURE is mounting to get the Inner London Education Authority to ban South African educationistsfrom visiting schools and colleget in its area." Hackney Council for Racial Equality, Hackney Teachers' Association and local branches of the NationalAssociation fpr Multiracial Education (NAME) are calling for a ban following the disclosure that SouthAfricans visited ILEA es ablishments on 10 occasions las year.The British Council- the body responsible for fxing up such trips- has arrapged visits to Britain for 44 SouthS African ediacatrlsts s fart his year.Extr: Festival actionTHE Ant Apartheid of opiion ageinst the decsionsMovement has won another ushed through this summer.skirmish withthe apartheid- It was critical that arrogance andlinked Festival of Youth mismanagement by the Festivalbrcheslra.T- Fgs val had : rganisers estranged many peopleO s Te Fin the middle ground. The key
to move fromAberdeen-after decision was taken by thesix years of opposition from University Senate-which was thenthe locaouiled or ed bythe UniversityCouin il.Nowitlo rtainJtathe' This agreed to abide by theontractFsiaillnb able tostafor r 1~981 burtto hare nothing to do more than one year in Exeter, with the Festivalafter that.though they may, in a fit of pique As eewrite, the Festival even decieo lteae befor6 they Conitteismeeting. If they arrive. decide to mnve next year, AThe victony was made possible groups will need to be alert. The-by a very good brefing from the vale of e coperation has been Aberdeen group alerting the Exeter shownonce.otograph ro-n' -ings are A, , vi0S E r-- sc - J : %end Tu~ts, I if---ewsimlies ven. eeaSu"'s"at Mrno thne Nil ZLYhue sns-A j .ll'r X Ta'ears'. T4 T.-iSgeashas Ja Pw"a greed."i sed wisus L s.5O. .1,etacam_~tle risks SUNDAY POST has begun reeiving pettionsent im- from the UK, where the Free Mindela came55ry. 'ine , peie kicked off lis week.alanuala ]a a-ser-ti-s- of its hi- M~r Mandela's prestgeFree NelsonMendela postcards ent by AAM supporters to the JohannesburgSunday Post earlier this yearwere reproduced by the paper to illustrate to Sot fia edr h cmag' nen oaisupport.So 50 00 peolea signed th bnday Pst'spetition calling~ for Manea's aeleae.
Sent TO No.10o1 no nate! in i nnrei nn onete errt,Street London, WIP 200 ier by anti-apartheid sul "meI ister, I am vary_27. i.t V=man NVIPROTESTS are pouring in from around the world at the decision by an illegal South African court toimpose the death-eat undier the Terrorism Act on a black Namibian farmworer.MARCUS KATEKA, aged 40, wasnec e tdeath bye the Windhoek Sprmme Couriton 13 October, inblatant and cynical lefiance of the United Nations and international efforts to achieve a negotiated solutionto the Namibian qu estion. By this action, the apartheid regime has once again clearly shown that it has noinitentiont of getting oiut of 4w d Namibia itl it iforcetot. Smote tha cMearcus Katelie,employed as a priso, foreman on a white-owned farm in hypo the Grootfontein area ofnorthern has al Namibia for the past 24 years, Was prepa sentenced to death for allegedly clear assitingSWAPO freedom fighters all ter to attack the farm in February this apart year. A colleague. HENDRIKateKAlISEB, aged 45, was given a with.10-year prison sntence for the from sare offence. Both were tefused Forsi leave to appeal.replyThe death penalty under the SternTerroim Act has only been used T4ytSouth Africa against Namibians ex on one previous occasion. In 1976, rin SWAPO National OrganiserAaron AfMuchimba and SWAPO member haHendrik Shlkongo were both Arsentenced todeath for allegedly Ke
taking part in guerrilla activities. ap Both were freed after a protracted ft. international campaign.Solidarity " action by anti-apartheid activists and orgenitations ins many no countries also undoubtedlyplayed - s a major part in saving ANC freedom reI fighter James Mange from the thgallows earlier this year. b.Urgent efforts are now needed to save Markus Kateka from neaxecution and to secure hs FirtBmvmet ielyonngSrSheff"aldthe Hoou ThachrSouth uppwould Soutns. Our the s , that Mr coon aring an with I Justice 14th ( the term.eings.?ka maye time. It CKt ure It nlty rrfrnmefl. Fally- Students; together withleading,lidarity representatives of Liberation, the Ind the Haldane Society and the BritishYouth Council, among other as organisations and individuals.portsv hirn/her to raie the citekus urgentlyPublicising the ease as widely Mas possible- further vmn"ent information end publicitytpg to mateial, incduding a special"a tet Katakacamnaign ammilale from esking Crs Clark at the AAMOffiejA SPECIAL reeting organied in London by AAM to mark S/e opening of the internationally coordinatedcampaign of solidarity with Namibia on 27 October was addressed by Shnapua Kaukungua, ChiefRepresentative of SWAPO in the UK and Western Europe, and Abdul S Minty, Hon Secrerary of AAMand Chief Rapporteur of the Paris conference on NamibiaMonday 27 October, the 14th anniversary of the termninationof South Africa's UN mandate, was a/so rtefirst dayof.aUited Nat/ons 1litbek of Solidariyaon
South Africa exposes the efforts made by thePhilips. Group to arm the apartheid regime, in blatantdefiance of themandatory UN arms embargo imposed in 1977. AANEWS reports: Most pople think ofPhilips, a transnational corporation based in the Netherlands, as a company supplying hairdryers, transistorsand other electrical consumer goods. The Philips Connection- military electronics for South Africadocuments how the company is systematically supplying strategic electronic products and militarytechnology to South Africa.Philips is deeply involved in the arms trade. Philips plants in Britain, the USA; France, West Germany.Sweden, Belgiurm, the Netherlands, Brazil and South Africa itself are manufac lg and distributing.products for military and police use. The South African army and police obtain aviation instryments for jetfighters from Philips, closed circuit televisions andyideorecording equipment, military night-visioncomponents, fingerprinting equipment, alarm systems, mobile radios and telecommunications equipment.In a Foreword tothe pamphlet,Nuclear traiAUT members at Imperial College, London, overwhelmingly adopted a resolution from an AAM memberin the Physics Department calling upon their governors and staff 'to ensure that admission policies topostgraduate courses in the area of nuclear technology and research projects in this field do notconflict withUN General Assembly Resolution 34/93E'.Resolution 34/93E is the General Assembly call to all memberstates to ban all nuclear training for SouthAfrica.This action5yImperial'sacademic staff follows the exposure in Anti-Apartheid News in the spring of 1980 that ESCOM wereadvertising for applications from suitably qualified engineers to study Nuclear Reactor Science andEngineering at Imperial College in preparation for the Koeburg nuclear reactors, the first of which goes 'onstream' in 1982.inig row
Action by the Imperial College AA group in June led to the governors' publicly dissociating themselvesfrom the ESCOM advertisement. However, in a letter to the AAM, Lord Flowers, the Rector of ImperialCollege, stated that 'we cannot undertake to refuse admission to South Africa, or tothe nationals of anyother country, to the course in nuclear fuel technology or any other course'.Now the governors face achallenge from the staff as Well as from AAM activists. Therecontinues to be confusion at Imperial aboutthe whereabouts of any South African students on this course.Following the row at the governors in June,private assurances were given that in fact no South Africans were actually coming. But this has beencontradicted by members of the Department, who claim that there, is at least one ESCOM student.Letter from a bantustanTHIS letter from a readyr was published in the Johannesburg SUnday Times:I WOULD like you to publish in your paper how nice it isto be independent, as wea are in Transkei.We like it - really wa do,Anybody can see by the number of people in our jails without any trial, and fhe period of time they havebeen there.You just have to wanderaround the smaller towns ald the rural areas and you can see howprosperous we are in starvation.If you also want an example of democracy you just know the place to come tor- of course,, Transkei.Nobody would not love a party thatthrows anybody in opposition into jail.I wish the whole world to know that we are well and truly avery happy lot in Transki even if our ex-ministers die in jail only ten days after resigning. Skinny tothe Bones, Harding.quarters.A further UNproposal is that 1982 should be designated 'Internatiol Year for Sanctions against SouthAfrica', to provide renewed momentum for sanctionsSOUTH Africa's biggest brick producer has decided to buy 10million face bricks from Britain, to ease the critical shortage in Sou th Africa.SOUTH African coal exports are rocketing and it is estimated that they will reach 44 million tons by 1985.And to help their exports to the West, BP is to cooperate in a major construction project in Spain to handlethe vastamounts of cal coming from South Africa.LAMBETH Council in south London has adopted a new standing order, that South Afican-basedcompanies will not be permitted to tender for local authority contracts. The decision follows protests 'byLambeth AA against the award of a housingcontract to Roberts Construction,whose South African Parentbuilds houses in the black townships and also in Namibia.3 54 permanent houses have beencom puters built for a Population of over13,000 people. The rest live inTHE apartheid regime is planninga wattie-and-daub huts. vest national computer network togive it far-reaching 'Big Brother" labo r ca m pscontrol over the fiees and work ofurban black people. MORE than 1,00 Africans in theComputers strategically placed Pretoria area of South Africawere in all the main administrative recentlysentenced to two years incentres, and linked toe central 'work colonies' in the bantustans, computer in Pretoria, would enable aliaslabour camps, for being jobless Sthe regime to tighten up thepass for more than 122 days. lawsand influxcontrol to Unemployment, in other words, isunprecedented levels of bfficially a crime punishable bysophistication. A wide range of imprisonment. If there is a single personal details on biaclk people,vacancy in an area, all thdse who including 'relevant' criminal are unemployed are defined as 'idleoffenres, ethnic origin, educational andunwilling to work'. qualifications, residential statufs and m ltaemployaent histry, would be fed m illia sinto the co.puters. THE South African army isrequiring all foreigncompaniescholera operating in the country toorganise all-white military reserve
THE apartheid regime's policies of units to protest their plants. Some forced removals are clearly themultinationals are refusing to do so, cause of a cholera and typhoid but they coud face floes ofepidemicurrently sweeping the US$25,000 and fle years' Swazibanti stan ol KaNgwane Theimprisonment for their executives. population ofthebantustan has When the SADF first asked theincreased by 200 per centoverthecompanies concerned to store last 10 years due to resettlement t ,weapons and to organise their own from other areas, and many- militias, they were told to do so inresidents have no seweragefacllities the utmost secrecy- not even or running water. In Macwiluinforming their parent companies intownship, outside Nelspruit, only Britain, the US or elsewhere.BaN THESE JOB ADSTHE AAM has asked the editor of is due to go into commercial theDaily Telegraph, Wiliamoperationin December 1982.Deedes, to ban recruitment Such recruitment is in directadvertisements for staff for conflict with UN resolutions callingESCOM's nuclear programi. This for a ban on all nuclear follows the appearance of such ancollaborationwith South Africa advertisement, in the 24 and, by enabling the tKoeburgSeptember issue of the Daily reactors to become operational,Telegraph, for 'Nuclear Power could provide South Africa with aStation Staff' including further source of nuclear fuel forInstrumentation and Control its weapons programme.Engineers, Maintenance Engineers, For further informationon the Head of Maintenance Services nuclearcollaboration with and Technical Writers'. apartheid, see South Africa'sIt would appear from these and Nuclear Capability, by Dan Smith, other advertisements that Southpublished by the World Campaign Africa still lacks many of the against Military and Nuclear qualifiedstaff it needs for the Collaboration with South Africa Koeburg reactors, the first of which and availablefrom AAM, price 50p.Police link:'no comment'REPLIES have been received from both the Home Office and the Foreign Office to protests by AAMfollowing allngations by the New Statesman of collusion between the British and South African police andsecurity services,S W Boys, Private Secretary in the Home Office, has sent his assurances that 'contact between the Britishpolice and their South African counterparts is restricted to purely criminal matters and to the protection ofindividuals and property'.He continues, however, that 'It is not in accordance with ourestablished practice to make any comment oncontact between security services This convention of not commenting on mattersaffecting security and intelligence has been respected by sucessive Governments. It is not possible to denyallegations when they are untrue, since that would indicatethat a refusal to comment in another case wastantamount to confirmation of the allegation: and this might reveal to other governments and their securityand intelligence services our own knowledge of their activities,'The Parliamentary Unde~r Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, Richard Luce, hasreplied that he is'satisfied that no purpose would be served by an investigationeverything required for the protection of Britain's interests in these matters has been and will continue to bedone,'
Considerable amounts ofweaponry and equipmenthave been captured by SWAPO fighters, including rifles, maggzines ofammunition and mslitary-issue clothina.5etween the spective of ,military ns introduced ./ .Jguth'Castro' Mayethula, in September.Over 2000 mourners marched with the coffin, singing freedom songs with their fists raised.Rev Mayathula was the first President of the Black People's Conventions andi was detained in 1974 after hehad beenasked to speak at a rally plarned to celebrate FRELIMO's victory in Morambique. .He was one of the leaders of the campaign inside South Africa to save the lives of AfC militanst SolomonMahlangu, who was hanged by the regime, and of I.- M.- :THE President of the Congress ofSouth African Students, Ephraim
Mogale, aged 23, was givenan eightyear prison sentence in.Pietermaritzburg in October. His his colleagueThabo Makuyane, whoscrbes
THOZAMILE BOTHA,oneof South Africa's most popular black "workers' leaders, sprang to international prominence at the ead of1979 as the trade unist at the head of a series of,strikes atFord's Port Elizabeth plant. A traimec draughtsman, at the plant,he was also chairman" of the Port Elizabeth Black CivicOrganisation (PiEBCO), a grassroots community organisation in theblack townships fighting for equal rights and againstdiscriminatory legisation.In November 1979l, the Ford African brutea. What we were doingmanagement told Thozamile Baotha was part and parcel oI the totalhe must choose between hia job with liberation strggle. .them and with PEBCO. He wasforced to resign. The black workforce Fords attenlpts to present itielf asat the plant walked out, and secured one of the more progressiveIhis reinstatement. There then began a employers in South Africa and icomseries of walkouts by the black exponent of the theory thatworkers, eventually involving the apartheid can be'reformealfromentire labour force. Despite drastic within'. What is your comment?action by the management, involving We went or strike at Fordsfirst ofthe sacking of all the strikers and the a]l because I was involved in"calling in of theriot squad, community work, trying to improveThocailloeBths led his colleagues the quality of life in thecommunity,to a milestone victory in January this fighting against rentincreases, busyear. After an eight-week lockout, fare increases,against the massthe Ford management agreed to rem0ovalof reaidents. Fords claims tovirtually all the workers' demands, be fighting to improve the quality ofOver the months that followed, life for blacks- if they were genuine w-rke-s.'The companies claim to beSouth Africa witnessed the most in this, they would not have improving the 'quality of life' for teeimpressive series of strikes for years. dismissed me. Again, the demands workers whereas in fact they areBetween January and August 1980, made by the workers were for equal improving their methods of'They took all myclothes, including ny undarpants, and I wasblack miners, bus drivers, pay for %qual work, the wrapping of explostation, by promoting more gietwo- anet s nd d n o ne and Ixwe sconstruction workers, municipal job reservation within the plant, the sophisticted fors of racism. ie a twoblan e pii a give ordynood ce , eocptth wsorkems, textile workers, flour aod ..promsotion of blacks tosesnior police at the pollee station, to give me porridge full omf worms.'bread workers, journalists, meat- positions, and training facilities, If What about the South African -___worliers, other car workers and many Fords were really progressive, such government's own Wtehahnand others besides rocked South Africa demands would not have been RiCerkert Commissions?with industrial action against their newh .nthe first place. Theirrecommendations ar the moste thSiouth Arican politiail system. Thae'workers see the need itemployers and the aparthseid sytmdangerousiof all the 'reformsa' Their very xitenceis a political fight for the total liberation of all theas a whole, What is friew oftire-Sullivan introduced lby the regime, because, fact,.oppressed people of Sout Africa. AsThoremile Bas himself wasPritciles-id fhe EEC Code f they are aimed at monitoring ,ndsuch they see themselves as part ofarrsted~l by h partheid police just Conduct for foreign firms operatiing cntlrollsngthe activiies ofthesWhsatare the interconnrections the iberaion mlovement led by as victoryatFords was reacbed- He inSouth AfncHaetheyanything workers. Inordertorganieasrike between warkers'struggles and the NelsonMandela and the ANC. The was detained under the General Laws Inoffer et. ack worker r today, the
wvaotsam spposedto schoolsboyrott that hat swept South desands that Mandels was fighting AmendmentAct and suffered They are just a sham- ar excuse for apply to the government, to the Africa over thepast year together for have not yet been met, o theinterrogation and torture before the multinational coipanies to Depart m tt of Manaower ltlisation, withthe campaign for the release of workers see the need to continue the being released and banned. Hecontinue to operate-in South Africa for example. Again, under these Nelson Mandela? straggle,Mandel himself isstilleventually escaped South Africa and toeontinue their exploitation of proposas thereikinounion Therehas been a growth in the determined to carry on is fight, andsecretly, despite police survelance, black workers. Sorb 'reforms' as the representation for migrantlabourers political consiousaeas of the people the workerscannot divotce thenmandis now working withthe ANC Sullivan and EEC Code are a form of whoresoititute 60 per cent of the inside the country,especially since selves from that. and SACTU external missions. protection fOr the multinationals, totabiak workforce in South the 1976 uprisings. Though thoseIn November this year, Thy offer no Prtetion to black Africa. uprisingshadan impactboth What is the relationship between theThoramile Botha visited London Workers and trade unions are nationally andinternationally, there resistance by workers and the armedbriefly ater addressing the.United. not permitted to participate in tended to be adivision between liberation struggle?Nations SpecialC ommittee against politics- but there is no way that parents andstudents, both in tenms Both workers' struggle and theApartheid in New York. In this trade unions can avoid taking part in of leadershipand in terms of guerrilla struggle are aimed at'exclusive interview with AA NEWS, politics when they are oppressed byorganisation. liberating the people of South Africa.he expl insth achevements of the Workershave been directing theirescaluaingresistancebyblaek South attacksat the economy of theAfrican workers andrlatesit 10 the ha- -country;the freedom fighters havewider lirtionstraligle. 'hen they arrested me on 10 Januiary this yeartheytiadeuffed also attackred key intalatons suchWhat twasthe significance of the me sod tightened the handcuffs. When I comlainedi= car as SASOL. Ther i close relationstrikeat Fords? our way totheplce station theyadthe keys were left behindb e t tivofboTe strike at Fods, together wth wihanother ma. At he police staion one man took thekey out wPi -strik at Fords, togthe wandtff Wh rk hek at supportwould you iket ewhat PEBCO was doing, were not the of his pocket, tried to unlock the handcuffs andbroke the k coming frm people in Britain,beginning, but the continuationof a Both my wrist were swollen. They took shammerand tried to espeall in eiataa to mactimelong protracted struggle fought by brak the handcuffs, but (in vaio.'against the regime?ou predecessors- those that have mThe worer of the wordmust unite,died in the hands of the Southworkers in Johannes July 19a0 aterriy physily and morally.
a worker IWe are callig on trade unionsthroughout the world to pledge their solidarity with the workers of South
Africa. In terms of diasnvestment it is 'They took me to the same eel more urgent than ever. Workersh and into the roomieverywhere have acommon enemy through the window- the whwho delights in exploiting themespecially nowwhen business is bad They threatened that I would companies close down, and move to Te showed me the broken vc South Africa to open bsssaes where your brother George Bcunder the cheap labour system.Trade unions which haveinvested their-pension funds in baks and companies trading with South sanctions- ard foan oil enbargoAfrica should withdraw them, The unemployed should bebecause their money is being used by discouraged from going to South the South African government tobuy Africa and selling their skills there arms and to kill black people. Those while blacks are deniedtraining who have invested in South Africa opportunities. South Africa is shoe are responsible for thedeath, of technicians, yet millions of blacoppression and exploitation suffered are ont of work and untrained. by the people there.- Oursupporters abroad shoulPeople should campalgnvagainst raise funds, becaune when South companies buying parts fron, andAfrican workersgo on strike they seling parts to, South Africa., in the have nostrike funds. They are notmotor industry in South Africa, for allowed to receive funds from example, every unit producedoutside the country officially.contains foreign components. Fords Workers of the world mustin South Africa, furthermore, are unite together. The problems of F5 fthalding cars fo the poliee and army.workers in Britain are those of ForYou must campaign for workers in South Africa, and whensanctions- economic and military we go on strike in South Africa,'They kept mwolteo. I a t was shamer losidence at , A-l nCfIn August th is year, the General Secretarpf the South AfricanCongress of Trade Unions, JO GAETSEWE,addressed SACTU's National Executive Committee meeting in Africa. Below are extracts from his PoliticalReport.'1980 has been deaed 'The Year of the Workef by SACTU in this,.the twenty-fifth anoNergary of orfoundation. While the Dutrban strikes set the pattern for the 1970s, the strikes in the Eastern Cape have setthe scene for the 1980s. This year, despite mounting unemployment, despite police harassment and theconstant threat of imprisonment, black workers in South'Africa are defying both the employers and the statein rounds of strike action.'We in SACTU have already made it clear to the workers that we cannot demand economic ights divorcedfrom political rights. The African wirket in South Africa is also the black person who is being denied thebasic rights ofordinary Citizens. This is why we say that the black people ofSouth Africa are not onyexploited as workers, they are also oppeed4a, s ntationl Workts n nrmtnot only have thei owiorganisations, thy mutt participate fully in the liberation movement.'If we examine the strikes that have taken place, we find thatmore and more strikes occur for reasons otherthan low wages, This does not meanthat wages are no longerlow, on the contrary the wage gap betweenblack and white continues to widen and therate of inflation continues to soar. Workers are beconsingincreasingly aware of the Y ital part they play in the economy. We have solidarity-cti.nnoycotra, stties r sopport or fellqw.wokere who have been d1imeed, and strikes calling for the rec ogitionof trade unions and committees.'There is not one industrial sector or region in our country that har not experienced strike action over thelast 18 months. A ,numbe of those features from this wave of action shold be highlghted to mention a few-the powerful community support during the Fathis and Monls strike, the solidarity of workers acrossindustrial liness during the meat strike, the clear political conscioustess demonstrated during the Fordstrike, the paralysing of the totor inustry duringthe Uitenhage stikes, the threat to the heartland of theracists' economy emanating from the actions at Stilfonteingoldine, Sesol and Secunds.'Workers are still winling to strike, in spite of the unerployment which is currently running in millions. Wehave seen the employers' strategy in trying to undemine workers' unity; every genuine independent blacktrade unint is hariund.'fInternationally SACTU is now mere widely recognised and
supported as the voice of the s orker. We outside the country are the eyes, ears and voice of those still in thecountiry. Despite tremendos 'difficulties, the orgnisation of workers at the point of production is continuing.'Trade union unity in South Africa is only possible on the basis advanced by SACTU: a fight toend allcolour bars, and equality of rights and opportunities for all workers. It follows that the question of tabourunity must start with the organisation of the great majority, who are at the same time the most oppressed,militant and revolutionary .-itn,, of the workisa ]larswhere, Ueorge Botha was thrown ole window pane was still broken. die the same way Steve Biko died.vinuow pane and said: "This is ,in ksdordd. becauswell. British workers should refuse to build cars while workers in South Africa are on strike. Workers inBritain should fight for equality of treatment for all Ford workers throughout the wodd.Thre An*!Apartheid Movemenr has always srqpported SACTU. Why is such support important?,SACTIJ represents all the trade Punions in existence inside South Africa othe; than those that support the policies of the apartheidgovernment. But all the other unions are in touch with SACTU andsoit should be trusted sa the orgatisationthat really represents the people. if money is raised for SACTt abroad, for example, thoe ihesiaitymovement car have confidgece that it will get through tothe eopte coseermed and who are in need of it.'Workers accept that woserr' libery was never aheve without tears and pain. But out of these tearswiflemerge a new.and free All above qaotaiono in bold type labour situation in South Africa, a healthylabour comun-ity that taken from asaftree by will be freeof all racialprejudice based onthe colour ofa worker'sThoie-ailBotha roUNSeecial skin.'- Tb.eeantIa qweta, Nationa Orse- he
FI FTEEN leading South African trade unionists have been arrested by the apartheit regime in the biggestlabour crackdown for fouryearsThe trade unionofficials are'drawn from four unions which have proved particularly 'troublesome' to the regime in the EastLondon area. They were arrested in November by the security police and Cipei bantustan police.The latest arrests, whileforming part of the regime's familiar repressive tactics against the trade unionmovement, are on anew scale.Three of the unions affected by the detentions have been veryactive in the strike wave. They are alsounregistered unions- the Western Province General Workers Union (WPGWU), which organised the three-month long meatworkers' strike earlier this year; the African Food and Canning Wo0rkers Union(AFCWU), which organisedthe seven-month Fettle and Mionis strike in 1979; and the South African All ied Workers Union (SAAWU).'The SAAWU has growntremendously in the last year . and recently succeeded in winning recognition from Chloride SA, In theCiskei, where the November arrests took place, it has suffered from constant harassment and arrests by thebaitustan police. Meetings have been banned and its National Organiser, Thozamile Gqweta, has beenarrested three times so far this year. On the most ,recent occasion, he was charged under the RiotousAssemblies Act. Other SAAWU members have had their homes burned down and stoned, while 125members of the union were charged earlier this year with the 'offence' of having attended a meeting of morethan 10 people.For the AFCWU the arrests came as its 71-year old veteran leader, Oscar Mpetha, enteredhis fourth suc solitary confi WPGWU also its key organi earlier this ye the meatworkTrade unio Africa are nocNew, moes byA NEW twist in the apartheid be able to control their activitiesregime's strategy to control more effectively- one of the mainblakgis ise g to ion aims*of the post-Wiehahn-chanes. black unions is emerging in The regime nowwants to removeSouth Africa. it is some of the more blatant and open
feared that legislation may indications of what registration issoon be introduced to make it realty about, so that more unionseven more difficult for can be brought under its scope.independent unions to The second obiectiveipmakingoperate. CHRIS CHILD. AAM registration more attractive andTrade Union Secretary, improving its image is to make itreports. easier to crack down on theseMeanwhi~le, the regime has been unions which adamantly refuse to improving the 'image' of theregister. To be in a strong positionregistration system by making it for su6h a crackdown, the regime apparently easier for unions to needsto make sure that as many register under the framework unionsas possibleare brought intoarranged after Wiehhn. The South the system, leaving the most hardlne union sepsdadioaeAfrican authorities have actively ons as exposed and isolatedtried to dissuade employers and as possible. white uni ons from blockingthe Companies themselvesare also,registration of previously changing their tactics. Ford andunregistered unions. Ir particular, Volkswagen, for instance. Iave the regime is discouraging the useappointed paid union shop stewards of 'in co opany' and 'parallel' ' th B hese are really more akin tounions and lant committees for foemes in British companies and this purpose and urging employers theainsis to use ithe shop stewards to work with 'representative to improve managements'unions'. sunderstandingof developmentsKen ida Walltonally detailed ost adverse quite simply,68 phoitographsp~aperbaeck 0.50inspiring reading. 500pphardback £7.95LAWRENCE & WISHART 39 Museum Street,London WC.Sarsice says.,The DTI points out that the potential for British exports in the ,ndustrial field also continues to be good.Last year, Britain's principal exports to South Africa were road vehicles, parts and accessories, industrialplant and machinery, electrical machinery, chemicals and plastics, power generation equipment, officemashings, textile yarns and automatic data processing equipme n tBritain's share of South Africa's market has grown rapidly sofar this year. Atogether, Britishexports toSouth Africa totalled 014 miillion, absout IS per cent ofunsermsumasa Ine re, ast,. ocen trade.As if to underline the message, the DTI hat recently announced seven more trade visits to South Africa withthe support of the British OverseasTrade Board. They include visits by the Engineering and BuildingCentre and the Engineering Industries Association (both last month), and 1981 visits by the Society ofMotor Manufacturers and Traders, the South Waies porters Club (February/Marsch), the WorcesterChamber of Commerce (March/ April), and the Engineering IndustriesAssociation once agai(January/February), as well as the Westminster Chamber of Commerce (March) and a possible West ofEngland mision later in the year,These new misions come after a record number (22, visited South Africa in 1979/B0. Tr- de missions fromBritain to South Africa accounted for three-quarters of all British missilon to Africa as a whole' in the-firstsix months of 198O. Birminham Chamber of Commerce estimatesthatsuch missions secure around Elmrlions'worth of new trade per anllfn.
Nw camrpaign~ massupport from unionsSACTU has called for urgent General Secretary of his mnion. Mpetha that there is 'anaction to secure the release f Mpethawas also chairman of the. overwhelming argument ondetained Sout African trad Nyanga Residents Association when humanitarian grounds alone that heunionist OSCAR MPETHA. in 1978 a major campaign was should bereleased'.TheAnti-Apartheid Movement organised to mobilise the people Toms Jackson has also sent a
Trade Union Comt mittee n against police threats to demolishtelegram of protest to P W Botha.the Crossroads squatter camp Oscar Mpetha is aconsistentcooperation with SATIS, has outside Cape Town. More recently, opponent of apartheid and a truelaunched a national campaign the Nyange Residents AssociatiOn leader of the South African people.on Mpetha's behalf and is has played a leading role in the ACT NOW to secure his release:appealing for lItters of protest Cape Town bus boycott. - send letters of protest to theto be sent to the South Together with another trade South African Embeey,African etbassy and the unionist from Cape Town, LEON Traffagar Square, LondonBritish government. MQHAKAYI, Oscar Mpetha was : 02.Oscar Maetha it 71 years old and arsted on 13 August ahddetained,- write to Lord Cerrington,a diabetic. He has been held in first under the Criminal Procedure Foreign Secretary. Whitehall.solitary confinement by the South Act and later under the General London SW1, urging that theAfrican police since 13 August Laws Amendment Act. Mqhakayi Britishgovernment intervene.1980, without chargss being laid. was later released but Mpetha - publicise the repression ofGrave fears have been expressed for remains detained insolitary trade unionists in Southhis health and he faces a serious risk confinement under the Terrorism Africa and the plight ofof death unless con ted pressure Act, wit no ontact with lawyers Oscar Mpetha and all politicalfrom the ' a trade union or other visitors. His daughter was prisoners- informationandfmtinteion a n refused access to see him after hit from AAM. A specialaet him freed wife was granted permission but film on the Fetis and MoniMpetha is a founder member of was unable to take it up because of strike, featuring Mpetha. isthe South African Congress of ! ilness. available from sACTU, 38Trade Unions (SACTUI and the last A letter urging intereniton by. Graham Street, London N1.elected president of the African the British government haseen - support SACTU's strike fund,National Congress in the Cape sent to Lor . Camngton signed y'. established to meet the needsbefore the ANC's banning He is a Terence Parry, General Secretary of of staiking black workers andIong'seing trade unionist and the Fife Brigades Union and TUCtheir families and to bu ildcommun i activist As National Chairman In 1979; Alan Fisher, trade union Organistion inOrganiser of the African Food and GeneralSeetary of NUPE and South Africa.Canning Workers Union, he was at coe nr TUC Chairman; Jack Boddy, Copies ofprotest letters and thecentre Of a recent strike by General Secretary, NUAAW Owenf cables should be sen to SACTUbakery workers employed b O'Brien, General Secretary, and the Africen Food and CanningPattis an dMonis in Cape Town.NATSOPA; and Tom Jackson,. Workers Union, PO Box 2678,Untilan apartheid government General Secretary of the UCW and Cape Town, South Africa.order was decreed banning him Chairman of the TUC Idtrnattnalfrom trade union work, he wast Committee. The letter says ofAntiApartheid News December 1980 Pafo 9Banking.A NEW blacklist compiled by ELTSA- End Loans to Southern Africa- shows how the apartheid regimehas returned to the international money market with avengeance over the past few months.The list documents thn recent activities of banks which havebean raising funds for the apartheidgovernment. ELTSA has written to the major British banks asking them to state whether or not they areinvolved in the latest loan handouts to South Africa, and their present policies on loans to the South Africangovernment and its aents.Over the period June to October 1980 alone, there have been atleast nine major loans to the apartheidregime, Hill Samuel. Lloyds, Midland Bank, Standard Bank and Barclays are just some of the bankingfirms involved.The full list is available from ELTSA, c/o 46Za Caledonian Road, London N7.ELTSA has also published-a newblacklistleaflet giving general informatin on how Britihbanks support apartheid: the role of the Big Four;alternative banks; and what you can do to support the campaign against the financing of apartheid. Ordernow from the above address- cost £2 per 100 (2p each).Airline'sracist trade
BRITISH Airwaveis busy pomo-nng South African exports in ae effort to fill air, freight containers beingflown back to Europe empty.BA's nine weekly flights to South Africa effload 100 tons of finished goods from the Far East and Europe.But the containers- then return home half empty,BA has institu ted a freecomputerlsed evaluation service to encourage South Africanexporters of clothing, footwear, sports goodsand other products to make use of its freight services.Break transnational links!irver m- sae unlonssm asso anul-aparinmu als-S caliao Tor tne release or ser zpetna, ano support TorSACTU, outside the South African embasy on 20 November. Those present includeek John Geteewe,SACTU General Secretary; Albert Spanswick, COHSE General Secretary and member of the TUC GeneralCouncil; Walter Greendale, TGWU Exeoutive and member of theTUL General Council; Jack Boddy,NUAAW General Secretary; Gerry Gilman, SCPS General Secretary,together with moat of the SCPSExecutive; Brian Price, AUEW-TASS President, together with colleagues carrying the union and KitsonCommittee banners; Clive Jenkins, ASTMS General Secretary;Jack Tyrell, immediate past President ofNATFHE; representatives of the London branch of the NationalUnion of Seamen, together with theirbanner; and representatives of the Tobacco Workers Union and AUEW(Engineering). Picture by MorningStarAfrica calls for economic boycott 1THE Orgeanisation of African Unity has warned that Western firms operating in South Africa are beingintegrated into the apartheid regime's military programme in the wake of the mandatory arms embargo.Already Western corporations provide South Africa with virtually all its petroleum, computer, automotiveand hightechnology supplies.In a statement adopted by theOAU COuncil of Ministers meeting in Freetown this year, the OAU went onto slate the EEC Code of Conduct and the Sullivan Principles asharmful to the liberation struggle. Westernfirms in South Africa had no Constructive role to play becauseany social benefits theymight conceivably bring to the black majority ware more thanoffset by their enormous technical andfinancial support to the apartheid regime.The Council of Ministers reiterated its total opposition toforeign investments in South Africa and called onWestern countries to withdraw.'THE transnational corporations have been and are playing adecisive role in providing South Africa with asubstantial military and 'nuclear capability; it is this which presents the greatest threat to the peace of Africaat present.' This was how IAAM Hon Secretary, Abdul S Minty. summed up the proceedings of the two-day symposium on the role of transnational corporations in South Africa, held in London on 6-7 November.VELLA PILLAY reports.The symposium wasorganised by the United Nations Division of Social and Economic Information, withthe cooperation of the AntiApartheid Movement, as part of a series of seven such symposia to be held inEurope and North America during 1980 and 198 1.The London seminarwasattended by representatives of over 20 British and Irish trade unions. by representatives of various UNagencies, the World Federation of Trade Unions, three Members of Parliament, and s number of Britishurganisations, including the British Councilof Churches.The syrmposium discusslons were based around four specifically commissioned papers, the first from theSecretary-General of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, John Gaetsewe on the Position of thelabour force in the TNCs. Other papers were prepared by and with the help of AAM.The presentation of each of the papers was followed by a fruitful discussion in which the main interestcentred on the role of the-trade union movement in Britain in taking up the cause of SouthAfrica's black workers by exerting strongpressures on the TNCs and the British government.TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA Paperspresented toUnited Nations Symposium, London, 6-7 November 1980I. Life and Labour in TransnationatEnterprises in SouthAfrica, by John Gaetsewe Secretary General, SACTU II. Transnational Corporations: Allies or Instrumentsof the Apartheid System, by Vella Pillay, Executiveof the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Ill. International Policy Options, by Robert Hughes MP IV. Transnational Corporations in Namibia, byRogerMurrayAll papers available from UN Information Office, 14 Stratford Place, London W1. Tel 01-629 6411
rage I U A"t-Apart"d News - Ulditini 19tsuArsitiva" IMNew. 10Rossing school 1SWAP01'THE Rio Tiri Corporation The blurb advises would-beis coNaborating with the Damara teachers to 'familia' l'isethemol,..w o ntribal aurthoritiesin Namibia in belore intervie. wisetting up a 'multiethnic' school for history of Namibia' Yincluding the I N AN upsurgeblack children mar the Rotting fact that SWAPO is recognised byin repression bySouth Africa's Il&qaI courts, auranium mine. The Flossing the UN as the sole aind legitimateSWAPO activist, IDA JIMMY, agedF unit tion, set up by RTZ in representative of the Narniblan35, was given a seven-year prisonNamibia,is recruiting in Britain for people, 'the controversy oVorlhesentence in Windhoek on 15teachers, through the missionary effect of multinational companiesOctober this year. The sentence waitorganisation Christians Abroad. involved in mining operations', and 41 1_11passed only two days after farmThe school is due to be 'the social u " rest and violenceworker Markus Kuteka was givenest, blished early in 1961 in the reasad by all this'. thedeath penalty for mistingAlendis township near Rather than drawing the obviousSWAPO freedom fighters ITswakopmund. Arardis is being conclusiort that the whole projectMir Jimmy, who was sevendeveloped by. RTZ as housing for. should be boycotted as inevitably imonths pregnant at the time of herits less skilled', ie black, workers. lending support and credibility to J IAC KA recruiting blurb being the illegal apartheid regime 'thetrial, was seized by South Africandistributed in Britain to selectors will look particularlyfor Spolice after she addressed a crowdprospective applicants fails to warn applicants who are sensitivetoat a SWAPO rally in August, held inLuderitz to celebrate Namibia Day.them that Namibia is illegally these situations, ":. .. ..ti" tolab t.fiain She wait convicted of 'inciting oroccupied by South Africa and that the tensions that res It withovt 4ancounaging' Narnibians to SupportRTZ's presence in the, territory is aligning themselves ithanyo ealso illegal and in contravention of party to the disputes during thethe armed liberation struggle wagedby SWAPO.
the UN Decree No 1. period of their 6ontrapt'.Ms Jimmy is currently the onl4 Namilitian woman serving a prisonsentence under'South Africa'sWomen workshop- sewrinylam, afthough many otherTHE Antf-Apartheid Movement of solidarity that British womenwomen are detained ' without charge,Women ' s Committee made its can engage in, such as making useOnly I ast year she was arrestedfirst official contact with the of speakers fro. the AAM Women'stogether with her mine-month oldWoman's movement in Britain Committee, supportingth- taid campaigns lau me fbaby and detained insolitarythrougha workshop held at the niched by 1.rconfinementSocialist Fe minist Nationo) and SWAPO, and na,It has also been reported fromConfa"mce in October. Between 50 women in support oNnib,. thit RAUNA NAMBINGA,and . women packed the ca-pakins. a normand SWAPO member whoworkshop, Picture by Morning Star has b-in detention without trialShirley Talbot, chairperson of MEMBERS of the NationalUnion siou May 1980, i teriously ill as athe ANC Women's Section and the f Jo urnalists, supportedby the Molt of pofice torture.16 1976Msguest speaker at the workshop, gave M OUTHPIECE, FOR THE D.T.A. 0 i-Apartheid Movement, Nambinlia ww irtnteaced tq sevenan illuminating account of the picketed the Reuters buildingin, yeaus'imprison- t in the somepositionfwarnanin South Africa OPERATING from an office in a 'Namibia Inforrinartion Servicef.London's Fleet Street on 13 trial at whiO SWAPO leadersand MimiNs,,theilacontirfbu ion London's 8omugh High Street, a Their to*? To provide basic N-amberi ut-saliclarkywirlh: black Aetna much imlim and Heildrilkto the nationalist straggie,-their mysterious orgarrisation called informirrion on 'the situation in a-taliminSouthAWc&who_ swiliong.- umtencedtodooth.rolewithin-thirfiberation NaornbaS whentgreat cliones have hueAn the cluriaidants erv,avatrwaflymovernent and the meaning of taker, place in the lost year or two The SouthAfrican Press freadaft., worldwide protests andfeminism in the Southern African towards a truly non-racial, stable, Association(SAPA) an&South t1w exposure Of the trial as acontext. PUPPETS'- harmonious ond free society'. African Argus groupoperate out of wrimpt force.Discussion centred on Ahe areas If that is insiafficient to tell you the building.GERTRUDE KANDANGA'PA MAN who they are, one of their first Deputy Nation. ' I Secre.,ofTHE puppet Transkei regime is ctivi Cies ha,,, been to circulate the NUJ President Francis BeckettSWAPO Women's Council, has beenpaying a white lawyer a salary of tet of a ciner which appearedwas present on the picket, alojg indetention without fhrial. sincaiF20,00-0 to he its i-i-itly I , The Ta.- The letter, with icut nalists trom seve- -nr January this year,reprc-tan , in Bwain. Mr A -r, a-dmt of Namibia, M, pape- Leaflets haridDclout to
philflp , 1,,, fiit worked for the' Billy Mannsis inpraiwof the pa-Isyanrithose kirqiothefood to pave puppet Democratic TuinhalleTrok., , 1977, he Rent- NAlding stated thattheth, -y f,,, a Transke ion Alliance IDTA). What Mr Mera" NUJ was 'nroterangtoday tordidn't mention in his letter it thatdelegation to address members of dernarct justice for blackjournalists THEZimbabwe government is tothe British Conservative Party and he is the Chief Secretary of the working for white paymasters in seek accotrolling interest in the Foreign Relations Com . mittee DTA little research reveals that Sir SouthAfrica'. I" addition, the NLIJ Zimbairwe Newspapers Ltd, which at theHouse of Commons. Ahas written to all its branches publishes the country's two dailiesA new badgil, Wooan against The Transkei has further Trevor Lloyd-Hughes, the man urgingthe. to send telegrams ofbehind this enterprise, is mare other support to t and leading Sunday newspaper.Apartheid, has been produced by representatives in the USA- where than Harold Wilson's former Presshe Media Workers Zi m balawe Newspaper , is 40 perthe AAM Women's Committte and its office has been granted de facto 'soclation ofSouth Africa cent owned by the SouthsAfriis aiaj1abf6 from 89 Charlotte reicognition by being allowed to Secretary 0966-70), and then(MWASA), which organiseo the Argus Group, part of the vast aMStreet, London WIP 2DO., For register as the 'Republic of Transkei Chief Information Adviser to thestrike. ramifying Anglo-Annaricfurther information, contact Core Washington Bureau'- Switzerland government, I o 1970 he wasa. empire.Clark at the AAM Office. and Austria. knighted for his services.F -REE LITERATURE!AIN,\- foodorn fix nwkiawwl CollaboratorX A) Artti -Apartheid Movement Annual Report of Activitias andJEA)ACTM -NOT WQFOS THE AAM has condemned the visitDevelopments, October 1979-September 1980of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, 'Chief- campaigns, policies, informationNEW CAMPAIGNING LEAFLET ON NAMIBIA Minister'of the KwaZulu bantustan,- 'fascinating reading a record of tremendous activity'ORDER NOW! to the European Parliamentm The FriendOctober. He was the guest of theDouble-sided informative leaflet listing six key. reasons why Socialist Group in the Pai'lianiew Anti-Apartheid Movement List of Resources andthe British people should act now to help bring freedom to Protests have been sent to theCampaigning Material, 1980the people of Namibia. Plus what must be done to end South Socialist Group, the British Labour-lists over 200 books, pamphlets, leaflets, poSte rs, badges,Africa's illegaiccewagion. Group at the EEC Parlianterit, the stickers, campaignbriefings, films, petiti n exhibitions,Socialist International and the periodicals and records obtainable from or through theS'Produced by the Anti-Apartheid Movement in cooperation British Labori, Party. AAM "isAAM Officewith the Namibia Support Committee seeking iissurancbs thatthem will bePrice frd.50 per 1,000 no further invitations toF rom: AA M, 89 Chariom Street, London W 1 P 2 DO. batitumb leadi anif other From.'AAM, 89 Charlotte Street, London W 1P 2DQTel 01-580 5311 coliabonttom with the apartheid Tel 01-580 5311
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pop 12 Anti-Apartheid News December IMCamift&,%igning dates Film EENUBIA'Mark these in your diary nowwith Sam Nujorina President of SWAPIDJoin the Torchlight7.15pm,'VVednesdaylODecernberl980'j i 'M arch Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, LondonNWI,A"-A p a d h e id in solidarity w I it It South in co"MMOration bfrthe 1959 Windhoekmassatremfd the close of tfia,internationally-coordl noted campaign, of solicleeitv wffi "Aprawi, African and Narniblan 27October-10 December 11980PotliticqI prisorws,Admission by ticket 30p before10 December 50p at the-doorThe Anti-Apartheid Mover"Int campaigns for freedom inSouth Africa and Namibia, The AAM works in politiciiii A ssem blet Organis6d by:parties, trade unions, reitious groups, universities, iolfeges, Anti-Apartheid Movement,89 dharlotte Street, WIP 2D1Q9cflook and with the ger*AI-public for an and to all'forms of j Inis- Namibia Support Committee, 188 North Gower Street, NW1collaboration with the S(R th African apartheid regime and International DefencearidAid Fund, 104 Nevvqata St, ECIfor support for those Muggling for freedom and independence The , Rally Willbepreceded.by a TORCHLIGHT MARCH against Southbin Fieldt African repression in Namibia and as part of the campaign toVPIM Markus Katekla from executian. savewhat tia publicising th facts about apartheid in Southern Africa and the 6 .00prnstruggle for liberation D.".:,Pubft Mee IngRrrPzdgnkng1or thFtotal j'soatton.of ap4(thvq SouO.Africa in allMarch to Friends House,h"ds "Cld-r, -dilcodertlicand,116 the inp-mon -mr)reh-iv4'ianctions Euston Road, for Rally TAM WthTouqhthe Uitad Nationi S*- ty Cou-ji with SAM NUJOMA,El exposing Gritish with the apartheid regime and pushing I President of SWAPO President ofANC (SA)tor a rversaq of exis;diN rritish government policies in favour"Of for SOUTHAFRICAHEiROES DAY-pr.' 7.30 pm at Conway Hall, Red LionSquare,LoodorWC1E7 I fw th, fibaio',--,-t" Th--odmts , ,
supportir)g palrtioalpri, Z 111d fienihees through the campaign , Orgarnised byAfrroariNatib l Congress (South Africa)againsT o tjul rgpr"ioh ivi Soutli 4,frica and Namibia and N. E E Ti N ( i i r, 2-4 -fi.ge andCampaiqning for tfw r mm (rate ord-conditional reiesseuniwrtities-were organised between 25 Jantary: F13EE NAMIBIA- BRITAtN S NUCLEAR COLONYmobitl ing polir-,rl, t it ard ro ter [ support for the liber ton 3 and 14 Novemberas part of the All dayevent at the AffimoveMefits or SuqtA1o- d Namibia. Centre, 38 KingStreet,London WC2, toNationad Unim of Students/AAM plan national stmtegiesfor the Campaign Against thafilornibian'Free Nalson Mandela'speaking Uranium Contract (CANUC) and, other action on 4grpiblia Ind"14".1cam wm gns: tour. The- speakers on the tow were discussion workshops,films, video, talks by prominent labourThe AAMp current-campaigns are; anRobertson and freedom movement and ahti-nuke campaignars.on the way forward,,0 Free Namibia!- stop British connivance in th Africa's Mkhwanazi, ANC(SA);Steve Or , ganisedby Namibia Support CommiVee, 1188illegal occupation. Support SWAPD. Cancel the Namibian Reicher, NUS, and Cate Clark, LondonNW1. Tel 01-3BS 5539jir;miurn contract. AAM.0 Stop the Apartheid Bomb!- oppose British and other At each of the meetings studentshad an opportunity to see the film African National Congress (Sorurth Africa)W -ter ocr, I labor ration with South Africa's nuclear b" i-up 'Portrait of Nelson Mandela' and to0 Free A(6fson Mandetal- Ompaign for the releasr.. of all NEWYEAR'S EVESouthern African political prisoners, in solidant , with thelisten to speakers, from the ANC,1 parallelcarrIpaign in progress inside South Africa itself AAMAnd NU4; kath incfu&dQ0 Boycott South African goorlsl- don't buy theproducts of 6 -O(Alllt clear that a DANCEand SOCIALripafthetO and cp-mpaigrr for thetotal economic isolation of issue of nr of concern was theoutfi Africa through thetermination of trade, loans and question of South Affica's. nuclear Wednesday 31December,iT)VerSjfrent. weapons capabi I ity. Students were 8 pm onwardsurged to take this issue up with- Coleraine Park School, GlendM Road, Tottenham, N17 materialCN D groups in particular. Tickets E2.00 (inciticling cmrrysuppelAAM and N US hope that asA wide range of posters, badges, leaflets, plomphlets, stickers, and other result of thetour a number of newDi-sco, Bar campsiqmngn, Lenal s available from AAM for these and other AA student groups will besetup, It campaign, Dt uouots are available for bulk orders fromgroups and was encouraging to note that in aorqanisati- . Litar-wre lists and other details available on request. nunitw of colleges Southern Africa Events w ith jA ]B1 -:1.1 1 weeks were *ither taking place or Friday 12 December 8 prn to1 amjo in n ow l me planned for next term. Any DANCEStudent members of AAM who areat the 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, London WlRECEIVE ANTI- AIPART4! F) NEINS interested instarting an AA groupshould contact Cate Clark at the Saturday 27 December 8 pm tilldawnAND INFORMATION ABOUT THE AAM Office for copies of the CHRISTMASPARTY DANCEANTIAPARTHEIb MOVEMENT'S ACTIVITIES briefingriocumarit and other at theAfrica Centre, 38 King Street, LorydonWC2, andN I AME .................. ...... . ......... ................... .................................... assistance. introducing the W ATUSI BA N DADDRESS ...............- ...................................................................................... F u n d s Friday 2January 8 pro till'daw n
FUNDS are urgently needed DANCE................... ... . ...................... ........................................... by AAM to pay off a deficit of at the 100Club, 100 Oxford Street, London W l, andTELEPHONE NO ....................................................................... .............. . ............. over C9,000 accumulated ' introducing KABBA LA Ticke I ts 2- it the doorduring the 1979/80 financialUse this form to winmore mer4bi'art for AAM. Return it to AAM,89 year. The Movement relies onCharlotte Street, LondonW1 P a coostant flow of fund- BritishTradeUnion-SACTU Liaison GroupMinimum annual membership few. Individuals: E7.50- students/ raising efforts by local groupsapprentices: E5 school students/pensioners/claimants: E2- locar and supporters, in addition toRaffleniganisationk f:7.50 membership * and subscri#tibn to raise funds for tradeunion organisation in South AfricaAffiliat ion rates for natio*trada unions are on a sliding scaWftom incomia, to meatits annual C160 to1E25, depending or ffwrze of the union. I I I exp . epses- now running at First Prize: Two weeksholiday for two (ait expensesSubscriptions to AA NEWS only Uk/Europe E4.50- out Eurqpe, newdy a0,000 porannom.paid) hi BULGARIASecond Prize: Two weeks holiday for two (hotat and full. surface mail E4,50;Please help the AAMto boerO in HUNGARYMembmship fees and bscriptions-can be paid directly into the AAM's respond to the demands of theSouthern Atriwn liberation and ten consolation prizes that really are A consolationGiroActourt-No5 5130U(Y4-'They can also be paid by Banker's Order forms avallabte from the stnugglie by making a donation,Tickets 10p each AAM Offica 44kinga totlection among Send forbooks of 10ticketsforfl.00 to:friends or colleagues, or Secretary, A-F Schuman, 240 Ferry Rise, Forest Hill, LbndonAnti-ApartheidMovetrionf-89- tta-Street, London WIP 2DQ 6rganising a fund-raising eVent-iTo[ 01-580 5311 ideas avaikabla from the 5E2320T.%, - Draw takes place on,:1 1 A*.afy 1981--oooo. 4 ' CiAM 9ffico,
